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Founder and Principal level mechanical, power systems and failure analysis leadership.

Principal technical integration capability spanning mechanical systems, power generation and mission critical infrastructure, machinery, pressure equipment, piping, codes and standards, failure analysis, root cause investigation, mechanical integrity, technical due diligence, and multidisciplinary engineering leadership.

• Mechanical design and troubleshooting
• Failure analysis, RCA and RCFA
• Pressure vessels, piping, tanks and heat exchangers
• Rotating equipment and turbomachinery
• Power generation, steam and utilities

Career reliability and asset integrity leader from major oil sands, upgrading and process environments.

Senior reliability and asset integrity leadership for complex operating facilities. Capability includes building and optimizing maintenance, reliability and integrity systems, investigating major failures, extending asset life, and converting failure history and condition data into risk based maintenance and integrity decisions.

• RBI and RBIM
• RCM
• FMEA and FMECA
• RCA and RCFA
• PM and PdM optimization

Senior machinery dynamics specialist with three decades of field and analytical diagnostics.

Specialist machinery dynamics capability for difficult vibration, torsional, structural dynamic and rotating or reciprocating equipment problems. Combines field measurement with advanced analytical diagnosis to distinguish symptoms from the underlying dynamic mechanism.

• Vibration analysis
• Rotor vibration and rotordynamics
• Torsional analysis
• Structural dynamics
• Modal analysis

Global machinery engineering authority for equipment problems that resist routine explanation.

Deep machinery engineering authority for difficult equipment problems requiring calculations, equipment physics, design review and independent technical judgment. Intended for problems that routine troubleshooting or OEM responses do not adequately explain.

• Mechanical calculations
• Equipment performance analysis
• Loads and forces
• Component evaluation
• Failure mechanics

Chief Inspector level pressure equipment authority with integrity data system depth.

Senior pressure equipment inspection and integrity capability with Chief Inspector level career depth. Combines field inspection, QA/QC and pressure equipment judgment with CMMS and SAP asset information management to support inspection programs and integrity decisions.

• Pressure vessel inspection
• Boiler inspection
• Tank inspection
• Piping inspection
• Heat exchanger inspection

Industrial power systems engineer with more than three decades of high voltage plant experience.

Industrial electrical and power systems engineering spanning substations, distribution, large motors and drives, protection, studies, electrical buildings, commissioning and operating facility support across oil and gas, refining, oil sands, cogeneration and gas processing environments.

• Power distribution
• Substations
• Transformers
• Switchgear
• MCCs

Senior controls and automation specialist for trip, interlock and control behavior investigations.

Senior industrial controls and automation capability for DCS and PLC systems, instrumentation, control logic, interlocks, sequence control, alarms and trips, system integration and commissioning. Particularly valuable where control behavior may have contributed to a plant trip, equipment event or operating instability.

• DCS
• PLC
• Instrumentation
• Process controls
• Control logic

Operating plant process engineer with large scale SAGD, gas processing and petrochemical depth.

Senior process and facilities engineering for operating plant troubleshooting, debottlenecking, optimization, process safety, relief systems and capital project development. Strong operating facility depth in SAGD and CSS, sour gas, gas processing, produced water, steam, oil treating and petrochemical systems.

• Process simulation and modeling
• Debottlenecking
• Plant performance testing
• HAZOP, PHA and risk assessment
• PSV, PVRV and relief load

Geotechnical and hydrogeological engineer from multibillion dollar transit and industrial programs.

Geotechnical, hydrogeological and geo-environmental engineering for foundations, groundwater, underground construction, slope and drainage systems, contaminant transport and deep formation wastewater disposal. Strong numerical modeling and infrastructure project capability.

• Geotechnical engineering
• Groundwater and hydrogeology
• Foundations
• Soil structure interaction
• Slope stability

Environmental and industrial compliance specialist across waste, water and regulatory programs.

Environmental and industrial compliance capability spanning landfill and closure work, wastewater, industrial waste, emissions and effluent, environmental assessment, permitting, monitoring and regulatory response. Bridges technical operating facility knowledge with environmental obligations.

• Landfills
• Landfill closure
• Wastewater treatment
• Industrial waste
• Air emissions

Project controls lead for large EPC, turnaround and pipeline execution programs.

Project controls and scheduling leadership for major construction, shutdown, turnaround, maintenance and pipeline or facility programs. Builds integrated execution schedules, validates contractor progress, manages critical path and resource logic, and supports delay, recovery and claims analysis.

• Primavera P6
• CPM
• Integrated master scheduling
• Resource loading and leveling
• EVM, SPI and CPI

Drilling application and subsurface engineer with international operator exposure.

Drilling and subsurface application engineering spanning drill bit and BHA performance, drilling dynamics, formation evaluation, well log interpretation, drilling optimization, field run analysis and geothermal reservoir characterization and modeling.

• Drilling optimization
• Drill bit application
• Bit and BHA directional behavior
• Drilling dynamics and vibration
• Formation evaluation

Field mechanical specialist who documents what the inside of the machine actually shows.

Hands on rotating equipment and industrial mechanical capability for teardown, inspection, dimensional measurement, overhaul, alignment, reassembly and field evidence collection. Provides the practical field layer that connects engineering analysis to the actual internal condition of machinery.

• Equipment teardown
• Internal inspection
• Overhaul
• Alignment
• Shaft and bearing measurement

Materials and metallurgy leadership for determining how material condition contributed to failure.

Materials and metallurgical support for determining how material condition, degradation, corrosion, welding, heat treatment or manufacturing defects contributed to equipment damage or failure.

• Failure metallurgy
• Metallography
• Fractography
• Corrosion assessment
• Weld integrity

Method led NDE leadership delivered by appropriately qualified examiners.

Advanced nondestructive examination and inspection support for locating, characterizing and documenting flaws without damaging the component, with methods selected according to material, geometry, failure mechanism and code requirements.

• UT
• RT
• MT
• PT
• VT

Fire and explosion investigation leadership across equipment, process, electrical and controls evidence.

Multidisciplinary fire and explosion investigation capability focused on evidence preservation, cause hypotheses, equipment, process and control contributions, reconstruction and technically defensible reporting. BlackOut Power assembles the appropriate specialist mix based on the event.

• Fire and explosion evidence review
• Cause hypothesis development
• Incident reconstruction
• Equipment failure contribution
• Process contribution